Re: Metaconlinguistic terminology
| From: | Joe Mondello <rugpretzel@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 14, 1999, 1:19 |
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In a message dated 6/13/99 4:16:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
artabanos@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU writes:
<< This doesn't really address the point, though. Of course SVO word order
doesn't seem difficult to you, but then, learning 17 cases doesn't seem
difficult
for Finnish people either. The point is that there is no objective way to
be able
to determine whether one is more difficult than the other. >>
Is that true? can anyone whose L1 has many cases tell me if they find it
easier to learn many cases than (relatively) rigid word order?
pacs precs
Joe Mondello